Porg General

Why did the cast of TLJ hatred the Porgs so much? They were the most Kino part of the movie.

Porgs are friends not food

The most forced marketing meme i've seen in a decade.

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porgs are cute.

CUTE!

porgs aren't even cute, they look like a mini diabeetus with black eyes from those shitty pop figures.

It's meant to sell. It's like those pathetic cute things in anime, except in 3d and worse than fucking hamsters.
Get some taste you plebs.

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Say what you will about George, but he knew how to move merchandise. Ewoks were cute. I watched that shitty cartoon as a kid, and had a Wicket plush. The trick to selling a cuddly toy to kids is giving them something they can place actual thoughts into. Minions have thoughts and ideas, Ewoks have thoughts and ideas. You can't always understand them, but you can decipher them. Porgs are Brimley penguins that can't even help you call Liberty when you find out the McDonald's and movie theater popcorn have given you type 2 diabeetis.

Marysue still not selling….
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"oh no, where is all the rey merchandise?" - t. salon.com feminist

They're on shelves, cupcake.

soon to be in landfills or where ever crap that doesn't sell ends up.

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It's not the porgs that make the last jedi shit. The porgs are probably the best part of the movie.

This sill makes it shit.

Who can blame anyone? All the new stuff stinks, and they don't re-release the good old stuff. If you have a mentally mature child that can comprehend the concept of "new old stock" you can by him a complete collection of the pre-2012 Hasbro toys for pennies on the dollar. Still in the original package.

close, they sell them in the recycle shops next to the rubbish dump. Took a load to the tip and had a look in one and it had a bunch of those pop figurines, mostly game of throne ones.

The "porgs" being such a completely unoriginal blatant "grumpy cat" ripoff merchandising cash grab just helps to push the movie into the dumpster of generic forgetability.
It's like the Hillary campaign took over the franchise.
Even the tomatometer looks like election night.

They could of saved a shit ton of cash if they just ripped off Happy Feet with porgs in it instead.

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Nah.
99% of the time spent on these cute and cuddly animated films are spent getting the designs perfect. You give kids this and they'll not wanna see it, because Porgs are hideous and disgusting looking. I don't understand what Disney was thinking with this design.

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THIS NOT YUB NUB

Disney researchers were probably brainstorming like this: "Okay pick two animals that are cute as babies. Well baby seals and penguins look cute, what if we just mash the two together and see what happens? A seal's face with big cutey eyes and body shape of a penguin you say? Perfect, now have it make cute noises while inserting a few gag scenes. Excellent, kids and fans will buy the shit out of this and serves as a mascot for future advertisements. If it really does well, we could make a whole new franchise loosely based on them."

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Yeah, you can't really make Porg OC characters or anything like that like you can with Minions.